Officers converged on an area off Maher Road near Walnut Ridge Drive at 10 a.m. after reports that someone matching Grizzell's description had tried to get into a home in the area and that the homeowner fired a shot at him.

"He was going to try to take my truck if my keys were in it," homeowner Steve Shields said. "I got about halfway down the and said 'Hey what do you want. Stop.' and he kept walking and I said 'stop right there' and I guess he thought maybe I have a gun."

Shields fired off a couple of rounds in the air with a .357 as the man disappeared into the woods.

Grizzell was spotted hiding in a culvert a short time later. Deputies said they surrounded him and tried to talk to him.

Just before 10:45 a.m., deputies said, Grizzell shot himself.

"We heard a shot and from what I understand, the shotgun was laying up along his body and he reached down and pulled the trigger and shot himself in the chest area," Tom Scheben, with the Boone County Sheriff's Department, said.

A medical helicopter airlifted Grizzell to UC Medical Center for treatment. His condition has not been released.

The location is less than a mile from where the cruiser was abandoned.

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